Apple has decided to pull Bang With Friends, a controversial app that lets users anonymously pick which of their Facebook friends they’d like to hook up with, and then notifies them when there’s a match, from its App Store this afternoon.

There’s no word yet on why the app was removed. But between Apple’s staunch attitude toward all things vulgar, and its app review team’s track record for pulling software on a whim, we’re not at all surprised to see Bang With Friends gone…

Cofounder and CEO Colin Hodge broke the news to Gawker’s ValleyWag blog, saying that they are working with Apple to get the application, which now caters to more than 1 million users, back into the App Store as quick as possible.

Hodge, a computer software engineer, started Bang With Friends with Omri Mor back in February. The duo reportedly just locked up over $1 million in venture capital funding, and launched on both the iPhone and Android a little over a week ago.

Despite its vulgar premise, BWF has received a lot of attention for its method of anonymously matching up users. Some even think the double-blind formula—which only notifies users when there’s a match—will revolutionize social interaction.

Anyway, Apple has not responded to requests for comments yet on why it pulled the app, but it has been pretty active on that front lately. Earlier this month, it forced LINE to stop offering pay-for virtual gifts, and last month it pulled AppGratis.

The US is the most prude (most positive word I could think of) country in the world when it comes to anything sexual. But for instance guns and murder are fine. Apple tries to export this ideology to the rest of the world and boy is it annoying. Nobody wants your ideology, keep it inside your borders please. Apple needs to get a local team for every country ASAP.

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if they considered picking a different name for their app, non of this would have happened.

WE SHOULD PETITION APPLE!!
…and force it, with public pressure, to allow iDevice OWNERS the liberty to use our iDevices as we see fit. If I were the wordsmith I’d like to think I am I would’ve written it up myself and posted here instead of this, but I’d rather have some input from the community regarding the language and approach to avoid doing more harm than good. All suggestions are welcome!
Keep in mind that this isn’t solely because of the removal of the app discussed in this article. It’s about what we, as adult consumers, should be entitled to from the beginning.
Ex: if I buy a car from Ford, that company doesnt have the right to dictate where can drive it, how i customize it, or what i do inside of it. Why does Apple have that right?